2 Kings 8:7

Elisha Meets with Hazael

8:7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king 1  was told, “The prophet 2  has come here.”

2 Kings 8:14

8:14 He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad 3  asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?” Hazael 4  replied, “He told me you would surely recover.”

2 Kings 13:3

13:3 The Lord was furious with 5  Israel and handed them over to 6  King Hazael of Syria and to Hazael’s son Ben Hadad for many years. 7 

2 Kings 23:10

23:10 The king 8  ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. 9 

1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

2 tn Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).

3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hazael) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 tn Heb “and the anger of the Lord burned against.”

6 tn Heb “he gave them into the hand of.”

7 tn Heb “all the days.”

8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

9 sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.